Open AccessDisparate Associations of Years of Football Participation and a Metric of Head Impact Exposure with Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Former Collegiate Football Players
Author(s) -
Benjamin L Brett,
Amy M. Nader,
Zachary Y. Kerr,
Avinash Chandran,
Samuel R. Walton,
J.D. DeFreese,
Kevin M. Guskiewicz,
Michael McCrea
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the international neuropsychological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.074
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1469-7661
pISSN - 1355-6177
DOI - 10.1017/s1355617721000047
Subject(s) - football , association (psychology) , cognition , psychology , test (biology) , trail making test , concussion , neuropsychology , clinical psychology , medicine , poison control , injury prevention , psychiatry , paleontology , environmental health , political science , law , psychotherapist , biology
Years of sport participation (YoP) is conventionally used to estimate cumulative repetitive head impacts (RHI) experienced by contact sport athletes. The relationship of this measure to other estimates of head impact exposure and the potential associations of these measures with neurobehavioral functioning are unknown. We investigated the association between YoP and the Head Impact Exposure Estimate (HIEE), and whether associations between the two estimates of exposure and neurobehavioral functioning varied.